From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:18:57 -0500 Message-ID: <43CDCFC1.2000008@pobox.com> References: <20060118021530.GA23108@havoc.gtf.org> <20060117183318.1031c0d2.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:36018 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030240AbWARFTE (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:19:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060117183318.1031c0d2.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Reuben Farrelly Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of >> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git > > > I worry that whatever it is which has busted Reuben's machine will leak > into mainline. This patch probably isn't it. Nothing at all in this push is remotely controversial... > I guess if we can feed libata and acpi into mainline in little bits and > pieces like this, that'll help us work out the cause. > > Reuben has spent ages bisecting lots of patches, but the bug is quite > intermittent, which makes the process quite maddeningly error-prone and > slow. > > Then again, perhaps merging it up is the best way of fixing it: someone out > there will hit the thing more repeatably and will have a better shot at > finding the cause. Well, I haven't even looked at ACPI yet, and the Jens/Tejun stuff didn't get much testing at all. There's a lot of unfamiliar stuff in the mix. Jeff